| Abstract: | Comparative education is frequently concerned with the dynamics of educational change and with educational change in the context of social change. One concept widely recognized by social scientists in the study of change but relatively untapped in educational studies is differentiation. In this paper explorations will be made into the nature of societal differentiation and into the meaning and measurement of educational differentiation. A tentative evaluation will also be offered of the utility of differentiation as an analytic tool for scholars in comparative education.(1) |
